sweetheart redux

Don't make me angry.  You wouldn't like me when I'm angry. those of you who know me know that  1) i have a bad temper i have a hard time controlling,  and 2) i am an athiest but can respect other people's religious beliefs, but sort of go thru the roof when Christians proselytize.   My aunt is a Christian minister, and i have a few christian friends and blah blah blah, so it's not like i act out on my prejudice against Christianity, though i do admit to having one, but I do try to be understanding about people's beliefs, just like i try not to have a bad temper.  but holy shit, i am so upset right now i feel like i'm gonna pass out from anger.  i'm about to share an Etsy conversation i had with someone I bought a shirt from.  and please, if you disagree with how i treated this person (I said I wasn't gonna leave bad feedback for them, but since they never got back to me about that, and i hated the shirt I bought from them so much, i ...

Well, I know that I’d said earlier in this blog that I will watch almost any movie, and that it might be sort of a neat exercise for me to write reviews or at least passing thoughts on these movies, but, I don’t know if I should or even could write about some of what I saw this weekend.   Here was the lineup: Nutty Professor (1996) Nutty Professor 2:   The Klumps (2000) I Now Pronounce you Chuck and Larry (2007) Hunger Games (2012) Wanderlust (2012) So, where do I start?   Perhaps with the admission that the movies that held me most in their grip were the Eddie Murphy Nutty Professors.   The thing is, I don’t feel like this is a true “guilty” “admission” or anything like that, because things like Vice Magazine (pre-Viacom buy-out) have definitely made it the norm to show a “surprising” interest in low-culture creations.   So I’m not thinking I’m blowing any minds here by having watched and sort of liked these movies.   Let’s s...

1.   What job did you want to have when you were a kid? 2.   If you have seen Girls, do you love or hate it? 3.   What is your favorite Matt Dillon movie? 4.   What’s your take on Cassavetes? (question courtesy of the Le Tigre song, but meant sincerely) 5.   Most embarrassing moment? 6.   Have you ever seen the 2011 movie This Must Be the Place? 7.   Favorite Quentin Tarantino movie (or do you hate him?)? Here are my answers.  Write yours in the Comments box -- it's super fun. 1.  Always a writer, but I went through a phase of telling everyone I wanted to be a writer, illustrator, fashion designer and choreographer. Robin Crane the next Bob Fosse? 2.  Love it.  Like Tiny Furniture less but can still appreciate it. 3.  Rumble Fish. 4.  Love him so much 5.  Once in 3rd grade my dad left the house for like 45 minutes tops to go to the grocer...

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13.             The next morning, Richard remembered to check the mailbox for mail before walking to his car and driving to work--it'd been a few days since he last remembered to.   He threw the handful of papers he found in there on the passenger seat of his two-year-old Lexus, a vehicle he'd never anthromorphologized as he had his other cars, for some reason.   And then in the elevator on the way up to his floor, when he finally got a chance to look through the handful of mail, he saw it:   a picture postcard from the site of the Liberty Bell, in Philadelphia, PA.   Was this from Beth?   And if so -- of all the places to run away and hide in, why Philadelphia?   Puzzling out the answer to this question occupied his thoughts for the rest of the morning, mercifully, so that for once he was deaf to the niggling background conversations so common to office life.   He went online and did some resea...